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The remotely piloted Subscale Flight Demonstrator – Distributed Electric Propulsion prepares for takeoff
Credit: Royal NLR
A subscale flight demonstrator of distributed electric propulsion for large passenger aircraft has made its remotely piloted first flight in Italy under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 public-private research program. The aircraft was originally built under Clean Sky 2’s Scaled Flight Demonstrator (SFD)...
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